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Email is no big deal, I used to have email with my own domain accounts, now that I changed registrar I decided 2 years ago to separate duty and I am using migadu of which I am satisfied.

I am installing mobile apps with accrescent, f-droid and aurora on grapheneos. There is a handful of apps I have never been able to install, because they are regionally limited and you have no control on regional accounts that aurora accounts use. I just live without them, no big deal. The service is usually provided by a web page anyway.

I am using an external cloud storage with wasabi as secondary backup site, I don't need any other cloud storage.

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How about apps which only have the option of signing in with Google or some other social / 3rd party provider? Do you also not use other services like Microsoft's, Apple's, Facebook (Meta)'s? How do you in that case sign in?

Most service providers support “sign in with email”. I’ve yet to find a service where no provider has this option.

I don't know of any. Examples?

Sounds complications

over what?

Gmail is not easier than any other mail provider. Quite the contrary as traditionnal email providers are usually more user friendly.

A store is a store. In my experience aurora is not more complicated than the google playstore.

As for storage I don't think google drive is less complicated thant the competition. I don't need cloud storage anyway except from secondary backup site which would be stupid to use throguh google anyway even if I was using an account.

You don't need cloud storage? Where do you store your media?

Not OP, but I have a small Nas at home, and a small raspberry with owncloud with the drives mapped. I run it all behind tailscale so all my devices have access to everything from anywhere. Backups are being migrated but I have my home pc as a backup while switching providers.

NAS at home, with a an old desktop machine working as local backup server. I have a cloud storage as secondary backup as mentionned earlier. Google drive/one would not be fit for that anyway as it is super expensive for very small amount of storage.

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